{"title":"The Social Image of the Czech Housing Estate in Selected Films from the Socialist Era","authors":"Adam Zygmunt","doi":"10.11649/a.2989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2989","url":null,"abstract":"The article concerns the representation of the space of Czech housing estates in selected films from the socialist era: Domy z panelů [Prefabricated Houses] (Jiří Menzel, 1959), Moderní byt [Modern House] (Jan Moravec, 1971) and Panelstory [Prefab Story] (Věra Chytilová, 1979). The films are analysed taking into account the tools of the semiotics of the artistic text, the sociology of habitation (with a particular emphasis on the issue of comfort) and the concept of using space, described by Michel de Certeau. The point of departure of the study are the realities of Czech housing construction in the years 1956–1989. The article aims is to show how the directors used cinematic techniques to create an image of life in a socialist housing estate.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140234212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Etudes About Tel Aviv”: The Image of Tel Aviv from the Perspective of Russian-Speaking Repatriates","authors":"Agnieszka Lenart","doi":"10.11649/a.3008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.3008","url":null,"abstract":"The article offers an analysis of the collection Ėtiudy o Telʹ-Avive [Etudes about Tel Aviv], which was published in Russian in 2004 and edited by Sonia Chesnina and Leonid Finkelʹ. The study attempts to show the image of the city of Tel Aviv from the perspective of Russian-speaking repatriates. The author treats the analysed texts as non-fiction prose, expressing authentic migration experiences and problems. In those texts, Tel Aviv exists as a city-myth, a city of culture, and a place where a new identity is born and shaped. The analysis allows us to conclude that Etudes about Tel Aviv is not only a text about urban space. It is primarily a cultural text, a place of literary search for knowledge about its inhabitants’ culture, history, and identity. If we look at the relationship between geography and literature, the text (Etudes about Tel Aviv) and the city (Tel Aviv) constitute a “common territory”.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140231876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moscow, a Submissive City: Jacek Komuda’s View of the East in the Context of Neo-Sarmatism and the Topographic Turn on the Example of “Samozwaniec”","authors":"Sebastian Tauer","doi":"10.11649/a.2955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2955","url":null,"abstract":"In the neo-Sarmatian trend (which involves an attempt to build individual and collective identities by referring to the Sarmatian cultural formation), an important issue is how one identifies oneself in terms of spatial relations between the West, Centre and East of Europe. Jacek Komuda is one of the most recognisable writers of this trend and thus has a great impact on the reader, especially the young one, and on the shaping of their identity. Moscow occupies an important place in his work: the capital of the Grand Duchy was a place where, following its capture by Polish troops, Russian and Sarmatian culture came into contact. A closer look at the representations of Moscow and its society in the novel Samozwaniec [The Pretender] allows us to see how the neo-Sarmatians perceive the East and what image they present to Polish readers, who on this basis are to determine what cultural circle they belong to.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Maze of the Living and the Dead: Mythologisation of the Space of Olšany Cemetery in the Trilogy “Trýznivé město” by Daniela Hodrová","authors":"Zuzanna Woszczerowicz","doi":"10.11649/a.2997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2997","url":null,"abstract":"This article is devoted to the issue of the mythologisation of the space of Olšany Cemetery performed by Daniela Hodrová in her trilogy Trýznivé město (City of Torment). The article consists of two parts: the first one is a theoretical introduction about the concepts of myth, cemetery and maze, and the cultural connection between them. The second part contains an analysis of Olšany Cemetery as presented in the trilogy. Hodrová depicts the cemetery as a kind of mythical space which has the nature of a maze, where the living and the dead both share the fate of being prisoners.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bulgarian Liberation Myth and its Spatial Realisations: The Example of Shipka Peak","authors":"Łukasz Wacławek","doi":"10.11649/a.2994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2994","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to reconstruct the course of the process of creation and development of the myth of Shipka in Bulgarian collective consciousness. The study offers an analysis of literary texts, monuments and rituals intended to reproduce the memory of events related to the peak. In doing so, it provides a description of how the site of memory was created, and how the symbolism and meanings given to Shipka developed through cultural texts and rituals serving to cultivate the myth associated with it. The author describes this myth in the context of the struggle for symbolic space, involving the creation of two separate narratives (Russian and Bulgarian) concerning the same historical event.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Demonstrations in Bulgaria and the Faces of Bulgarian Activism Today: A Case Study of the 2022 Lukov March and a Counter-Demonstration Organised by Feminist Mobilisations","authors":"Zuzanna Nina Kierwiak, Eliza Markiewicz","doi":"10.11649/a.2995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2995","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a case study of the 2022 Lukov March and a counter-demonstration to this march. The Lukov March is an annual event organised in Sofia by the far-right Bulgarian National Union, and the so-called Anti-Lukov March is a counter-demonstration organised by, among others, the group called Feminist Mobilisations. The article is based on two years of research conducted while working on a co-authored master’s thesis, involving netnography, participant observation and narrative interviews with women who identify with feminist or far-right activism. The study aims to analyse both events and both groups in the context of performative activist actions in the urban space of Sofia, with a particular focus on the issue of the performative body and performance in social space. In our work, we use the method of critical discourse analysis and anthropological methods.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Belgrade Metro as a Space of Unfinished Modernisation and Literary Reflections of Its History","authors":"Angelika Kosieradzka","doi":"10.11649/a.2983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2983","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of a Belgrade metro has been present in Serbian urban planning since the interwar period. Despite numerous projects, long discussions, and even the creation of a small part of the necessary infrastructure, the underground rapid transport system remains a solution that has never been implemented. The subject of this article is the metro viewed as a project permanently suspended at the conceptual stage, constantly in a transitional phase, a project whose constitutive feature is “being in progress”. As a result of the endless temporariness of alternative transport solutions, in Serbian culture the metro functions as a symbol of the incompleteness and dysfunctionality of local reality. This phenomenon is confirmed by Filip Vujošević’s drama Halflife, analysed in the article. It is set in the space of the underground station Vukov Monument (Vukov spomenik), designed as a main point of the future metro, but still serving today as a temporary solution and a substitute.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140510064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Project VVV and the Issue of Revitalising Valoc’","authors":"Fabio Scetti, Federica Salamino","doi":"10.11649/a.2721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2721","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an insight into the complex issue of producing the first edition of the dictionary of Valoc’ – a variety of Lombard spoken in Val Masino, lower Valtellina (northern Italy). This new lexicographic project was initiated in 2017 and is called Vocabolär del Valoc’ de la Val Mäśen – VVV [Vocabulary of Valoc’ of Val Masino].\u0000Our research team works on the material of an unpublished dictionary based on interviews collected in the 1960s and 1970s. Our methodological approach is both that of dialectology and sociolinguistics as we complement our study with observations and interviews among Valoc’ speakers of different ages, genders and occupations, to see how it is still used today. Moreover, our approach allowed us to observe the process of the transmission of Valoc’ from one generation to another as well as some discourses among speakers on its uses.\u0000In conclusion, this contribution brings us to reflect on how the new “global” society may influence the process of transmission of this endangered language which needs to be revitalised. Interventions at primary and secondary school have been offered in order to introduce Valoc’ as a language of everyday communication and not only as the “dialect” of pupils’ grandparents. We examine the importance of developing a dictionary in order to promote a norm of reference in writing as a way to preserve Valoc’ for the future.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42288133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Authentic’ Language as a Contested Concept in Brittany","authors":"Michael Hornsby","doi":"10.11649/a.2743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2743","url":null,"abstract":"The question of authenticity in language has been approached from a number of theoretical standpoints. A significant type of feature which may bestow authenticity and legitimacy is the linguistic. Linguistic performance can be viewed in terms of either the unreflectingly fluent and competent use by the ideal native speaker or, in opposition, the inauthenticity of the non-native language learner. As pointed out by Martin Gill in his paper “Exclusive Boundaries, Contested Claims: Authenticity, Language and Ideology”, authentic speech is romanticised as “native, spoken, verbatim, unrehearsed, off-the-record, sincere, vernacular and non-standard”. Such a definition is easily understandable by the wider public outside of academia. However, it begs the question: who has the authority to make this distinction and who can validate these authenticity claims? Mary Bucholtz proposes instead the concept of authentication, or the outcome of constantly negotiated social and linguistic practices. Debates over what constitutes ‘authentic’ language in minority language settings are particularly noticeable, given the processes of revitalisation many of them are going through. This paper aims to move the discussion away from the purely linguistic when considering what authenticity means, and investigate the concept from a more speaker-centred perspective. The example of Breton in Brittany is taken as the case study here – what it means to speak Breton ‘authentically’, according to whom, and to which norms. In particular, attention is paid to the authentication process of negotiation and how different actors approach and manage this dynamic.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45389993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Annotated Bibliography of Published Works Concerning the Culture of Wilamowice and the Wymysorys Language, 1945–2000 and 2020–2022","authors":"Tymoteusz Król, Maciej Mętrak, Andrzej Żak","doi":"10.11649/a.2751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/a.2751","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, the second part of a comprehensive Vilamovian bibliography, contains a list of 89 publications (1945–2000 and 2020–2022) concerning the history, culture and language of Wilamowice, a small town in the south of Poland, populated by descendants of medieval colonists of Germanic origin. The town is well known for its unusual folk costume and the critically endangered minority language known as Wymysorys. Although the bibliography mainly covers academic works (monographs, book chapters and journal articles) and popular science publications, it also includes a section listing literary works published in Wymysorys. Each entry provides bibliographic information, keywords and a brief description of the publication. Additionally, links to online versions of the works are provided where possible.","PeriodicalId":40459,"journal":{"name":"Adeptus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46341474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}